4th Of July (Letra)

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you gotta have the right tools
for every job
so I invite myself in
through a hole in the fence
I am tripping through the junkyard
scanning over the piles
the thin cats raise their skin in defense
I know he’s watching me
I can see him through the cracks
his eyes are small and shy on my back
he says his name is jason
he lives in the last trailer on the right
and he’ll be seven
on the fourth of july

only the people who live here
know the name of this place
my path through iowa would be
hard to trace
all the adults in this town
try not to frown
when I walk by
but jason smiled at me
he met my eye

he don’t ask me
where I’m from
or why I came
here alone
we all go looking for paradise
then we go back home
we cut out the small talk
go right to the way things are
he showed me his squirrel skull
I told him I locked myself out of my car

so there goes the only friend
I have in iowa
his hand flapping behind him
waving good-bye
his name is jason
he lives in the last trailer on the right
and he’ll be seven
on the fourth of july

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4th Of July (Letra)

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Today’s the fourth of july
Another june has gone by
And when they light up our town i just think
What a waste of gunpowder and sky
I’m certain that i am alone
In harbouring thoughts of our home
It’s one of my faults that i can’t quell my past
I ought to have gotten it gone

Oh, baby, i wonder –
If when you are older –
Someday-
You’ll wake up
And say, ‘my god, i should have told her –
What would it take?
But now here i am and the world’s gotten colder
And she’s got the river down which i sold her.’

So that’s today’s memory lane
With all the pathos and pain
Another chapter in a book where the chapters are endless
And they’re always the same
A verse, then a verse, and refrain

Oh, baby, i wonder –
If when you are older –
Someday-
You’ll wake up
And say, ‘my god, i should have told her –
What would it take?
But now here i am and the world’s gotten colder
And she’s got the river down which i sold her.’

4th Of July (Letra)

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Music & lyrics: john popper

Well she hated the 4th of july
Bombs bursting in air, and she’d never know why
She’d keep me up all night, too terrified to cry
Oh yes, she hated 4th of july

Don’t you be scared, don’t you start to shake
Go back to sleep because i am wide awake
I’m right here, i’m not going anywhere tonight
Feel my hand, i’m gonna hold you till the early light

And when the thunder clapped, she’d run to me afraid
She tried to be brave, but she couldn’t figure out the terrible sound it made
I was smarter, but she just couldn’t see
And when the thunder clapped, she’d always run to me

Don’t you be scared, don’t you start to shake
Go back to sleep because i am wide awake
I’m right here, i’m not going anywhere tonight
Feel my hand, i’m gonna hold you till the early light

Oh yes, she loved the world on a crisp, autumn day
The leaves would turn her color, the children were at play
Sit on hilltops with her, she’d smile as if to say
You couldn’t touch the world when autumn comes this way

And i don’t believe she cared for getting old
The limbs move a little slower, the hearing just goes cold
One day she looked at me through a gray haired eye
And i couldn’t believe she was telling me good bye

Don’t you be scared, don’t you start to shake
Go back to sleep because i am wide awake
I’m right here, i’m not going anywhere tonight
Feel my hand, i’m gonna hold you till the early light

And i do believe her soul was rich and blue
We taught each other lessons, lessons that we knew
When we kept growing, there was nothing we could do
But i loved her and i know she loved me too

Now you can call me a sentimental fool
But i learned more from her than i ever did in school
I still get apprehensive, i still remember why
When the thunder claps or it’s the 4th of july

Don’t you be scared, don’t you start to shake
Go back to sleep because i am wide awake
I’m right here, i’m not going anywhere tonight
Feel my hand, i’m gonna hold you till the early light

Oh yes she hated the 4th of july

4th Of July (Letra)

Ani DiFranco

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Shower in the dark day
Clean sparks driving down
Cool in the waterway
Where the baptized drown
Naked in the cold sun
Breathing life like fire
Thought I was the only one
But that was just a lie

Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July

Pale in the flare light
The scared light cracks & disappears
And leads the scorched ones here
And everywhere no one cares
The fire is spreading
And no one wants to speak about it
Down in the hole
Jesus tries to crack a smile
Beneath another shovel load

And I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July

Now I’m in control
Now I’m in the fall out
Once asleep but now I stand
And I still remember
Your sweet everything
Light a Roman candle
And hold it in your hand

Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July

4th Of July (Letra)

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[this song is entirely instrumental]